but our shores accuses u.s. prosecutors of being complicit in his service side after he faced decades behind bars for downloading academic documents from the public is. now a no suggestions just anger i made a nervous lull in belfast and she speaks to buzz sighs in the weeks old slide conflict as they struggle to explain what that demands actually are. and france gives assurances its military operation against the mali islamists will be fought and made warnings the country risks being pulled down in the conflict for fun longer than planned.

live from moscow this is our she with me thanks for joining us the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach this is how they family of this celebrated internet freedom activist arrant schwartz have described his recent suicide shorts face decades in prison after federal prosecutors alleged illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and plan to distribute them for free he has frequently interviewed shorts and our own marina takes a closer look now at the man and his case. he was a computer prodigy an online activists co-founder of the social news website reddit and he was also

a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will never come because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no no behind and according to reports his girlfriend found him in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic articles and other documents swartz pled not guilty to the charges which carried a sentence of up to thirty five years in prison and a one million dollar fine in the aftermath of the suicide swartz's family released

a statement blaming the prosecution the federal prosecution for driving the twenty six year old to take his own life they said in part quote aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy it is the product of a criminal justice system right with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach decisions made by officials in the massachusetts u.s. attorney's office and at mit contributed to his death unquote many of swartz's colleagues have been quoted remembering him as a genius kid brilliant and funny now at thirteen years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the are a says program that alerts users to new blog posts warts also founded demand progress in internet group that campaigns against web censorship in this. ultimately led to many people considering him something of an on line robin hood but his supporters his friends his his family members believe that it was him being

targeted by the federal government that caused this brilliant twenty six year old to take his own life reporting from new york marina portnoy arky. triggered an avalanche of tributes online from leading internet and like minded activists and the german m.p. from the pirate party reinhard believes the potential punishment schmalz was facing for his activity was way too harsh. it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with quid few thousand dollars fines for just downloading some music from the internet while it was putting pirates on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j. store. where the parts came from said they wanted to put the parts on the internet anyway it was just the did a good job doing it this in the open this case whenever it comes to freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then all the senators all the people in

the house of representatives in the united states the same side there is no differences. there there and same side as hollywood does there are actually fighting for hollywood in making the last. that we're trying to go into what he was fighting for and i think there's a political movement that is fighting for a free internet it's the strong it's not. there's a shaky cam in belfast where dozens of police officers were injured in the latest spate of sectarian violence haven't they we can't then western the northern irish capital began when they catholic dominated local council voted to cut tail defying the british flag of the city hall the move was fiercely opposed by loyalist protestants and first reports protestants to the violence with the goals vague on

by the science of the conflict. they've been a turbulent time for northern ireland it's been six weeks now since the decision was taken to limit the number of days of the flight city hall sparking. out on to the streets the weekend today we saw some of the worst rioting that has taken place. we have more than twenty nine police officers that were injured at the weekend and the damage that this is doing. much much further reaching. in this area. talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly. the riot sparked by the like this speech showing no signs of abating at the weekend loyalists returning from the protest that will pass the nationalist area both sides

clashing police think a bunch of attacks from loyalist rioters many in the nationalist community. angry young loyalists of pulling back an old sectarian narrative a worrying sign to remember the reality of past troubles. young people why are they coming out and reacting in this way. we have. you have is in the right so role of the sea

what's happening right now is damaging northern ireland's image or around the world well can be done to stop this happening right now what would these people respond so politicians need if the people on the street they need to listen to the civilians are. slaughtered every day in the cold winter when do you think this is going to stop i don't think it's going to stop a bad religion for it's going to stop the talf the still some calm in the form of the peace rally held on sunday and here have watched on it but will demand some in fear of what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority hugo's all beings of the sort of embarrassed majority will silent majority would do is that represents to turn to the thing that is quite embarrassing when you hear the news of our countries you see in these protests some people who test you see this nobody would ever think of belfast we think oh yeah i still have

those mortars in the grass that's not a face like us. maybe you could say they're shuffle the good things up in this way oh that's a culture of. the races now want to come up with a solution to calm the situation before it gets any more and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the heart full or roger. artsy. you know washing out to the head for you this hour pushing weapons ahead a well with a parliamentary election and a zero approaching people question the government's priorities are the country splashes the cash hosting and other large scale war games but ignores demands for economic change. germany's said to persuade the greek opposition that austerity is what afghans need as some say berlin is making approaches towards what it believes will be the future leader of a troubled eurozone math class. that's later but now

france says the u.s. and britain are providing support for its military intervention in mali french troops have been funny seem the african nation science friday to help the government to regain the north from rebels but political writer barry long believes western nations are dealing with the fallout of that campaign in another african nation libya and the current operation money will be a long one so part of france's for issues its colonial past its great paskin. in west africa and also in asia and the french are still not for that i think that's very much part of it and also of course the economic interest there you're talking about a country just north of eight which is twice the size of france how do you track down these rebels these different groups who know these areas how do you deal was up with a few hundred troops away as well as the potentially huge involvement

a very long task what happened was after gadhafi fell a lot of. mercenaries who had been paid to fight for him who had a lot of very happy arms took off and came south and some of them originally from the northern mali decided it was now time to establish their claim which they wanted to do for a long time to having their own homeland in northern mali with wires. they were better than joined by radical more radical islamic groups and apparently these words have now been tossed out and it's really the radical islamic groups that run things. stay with us he will be back with more news in just a few moments. i

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this is on c live from moscow welcome back a little bonding us citizens from adopting russian children has become the target the latest opposition rally in moscow thousands marched into santo the capital on sunday protesting against their act and our correspondent igor this could not last after hours. the protesters are demanding that the e.u. the authorities abolish the law passed recently which bans americans from adopting russian children now this button is part of the russian lawmakers response to the magnitsky act passed recently in the united states which gives the green light for sanctioning russian officials suspected there in the states or for a leading human rights reason why russian lawmakers chose to balad meghan's from

adopting russian children is due to the meat dishes of lobby usually sometimes even deaths of russian kids after they were adopted and brought to the united states in fact the whole issue of the option has been quite a problem between russia and the united states for several years now and officials in moscow say it's not only the cases of abuse themselves but also the lack of a proper legal reaction from american authorities including the lack of heavy jail sentences which could have prevented these cases from happening again so authorities say that banning americans from adopting russian kids is actually aimed at protecting them and they do have a fair amount of supporters in society but there are also many of those who are strongly against this ban just recently why the russian girl in her blog online wrote a personal letter to president putin for signs the bill in the end asking him to

change his mind to abolish this law she explained it by saying that in many cases the orphans which are being adopted by americans they are disabled and they are simply not able to receive the proper medical attention here in russia and we both already heard from the president's press secretary the need to be strong to say that i was going to put in will review this walk post even though it's not an official request it's also needed to point out back to due to the current agreement between moscow and washington on adoption all. all those people who have already been able to find children who are going to be adopted and brought to the united states they're going to be able to y.o.i. the process so these kids who are already sort of approved to be adopted be will be able to go to the united states all the way until two thousand and fourteen. and there's always a lot more pictures and videos from the latest opposition rally held in russia had

to r.t. dot com for a closer look at that and more stories waiting for you there right now including sig but don't find a new collection of clothes designed to hide the wear over on the grounds and other means of detection is said to bend the old in london soon had to r.t. dot com to read how montagu big brother's was falling. and also there for you not just cheering crowds for the park brand that has members of the notorious ukrainian femen a group stage and naked protest right in the heart of the vatican online the got the details of what sparks the women's discontent they stine. if you. believe.

it's going to be a battle over austerity when they german finance minister meets the greek opposition leader who's been holding firm against their berlin banked austerity strategy alex it's a price is expected to demand international lenders change the terms of the international bailout for greece and political economist yanis varoufakis says there's also a particular reason why germany is interested in this meeting. what was the law was in a position from mrs michael if you stuck to him and then five much other to this stuff that was relationship with him once he became president of the french the public similarly misses the person may well be in government and after the next election in the future in greece so germany me to have modes of communication

not in order to. either refused to give us a but we keep your school invention so i believe about that i wrong clear thinking but i could be some kind of goodly communication. cashel news in brief now antigovernment protesters in bahrain have reportedly clashed with police at the funeral of an activist who died after being overcome by tear gas it follows that she was of demonstrations urging the current government to step down that pricing in the gulf monarchies started in early twenty levon as the shia majority began its push for greater political freedoms and rights. activists have begun then much of the pakistani capital after their leader boycotted discontent with the current political system islamabad have tightened security and warned demonstrators of possible terrorist attacks some politicians in the march was initiated by the state. of the general election in the spring the cleric who sparked the movement says the government should deploy drastic reforms and break up

the corrupt regime. nigerian military forces claim to have captured a key figure from the islamist group boko haram hammad as a neo was reportedly caught in the country's northeast and as he said believed to be the heart of the insurgent group the government is trying to that isn't the group which is responsible for thousands of deaths during a time from civilian. major crimes committed in different parts of the world including africa and the way they are handled by the international criminal court another topic of our crosstalk debate and next hour peter he's got a clash over what i.c.c. is. and here's a look at what's ahead we've seen the i.c.t. why. only the saabs have been indicted and convicted and where are. our nato allies largely when either not being indicted or how we don't know are

they really in there which is where the fact that someone is acquitted is not an example of the failure of impartial justice in fact in many ways is an example of the success of impartial justice because what that indicates is simply that the prosecutor failed to make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt at the i.c.c. we have already seen the same thing happening where gaddafi was indicted arrest warrants issued there's been no investigation into the crimes committed by gaddafi is adversary there's been no investigation into the murder in captivity of gaddafi and there's been no investigation of the war crimes committed by nato. we believe. israel is increasingly under fire for its settlements plan with the latest wave of

international criticism sparked by the forceful eviction of a palestinian protest camp dozens of on to sacramento. braided the site despite an earlier cooder preventing the government from such action and would talk to her palestinian man who took part in the nonviolent protest and he believes that coming israeli election is the reason behind the commotion. when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with the forces of an armed does that by itself is violence but even within the process of action many. activists many of those that suffered brutal beatings for no reason they did not even resist. or less what they suffered due to the beatings we had at least six or seven of those activists

treated in the hospital a lot of them are hostile to see doctors for severe problems that they suffered from the beating it's a political issue for the. the going ahead with their settlement plan. to connect violent means sentiment to do so and they don't want anything with the legal or illegal to disturb the settlement expansion. and there's a lectures that are coming out of the netanyahu has to take it off the stand off position on on this particular case meanwhile a funeral has hosted on spin called the largest have a multinational air force exercise with more than a hundred fighter planes taking part in the combat training came just a couple of months after another large scale military drill conducted jointly with the u.s. and with a parliamentary election in the country just around the corner and growing number

of the trainees and questioning such huge expense on war games has put a slick way. his role in the united states military drills bigger than any they've done in the past thousands of troops and millions of dollars but with social grievances that still need to be addressed and a prime minister looking for votes ahead of early january elections israelis are asking themselves yet again if netanyahu has his priorities straight that. he's a cup at least and under his term as we saw in the last few years of the cleavage between poor and rich with. the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money netanyahu chances of a victory come january are high and television homeless are preparing themselves

for more of the same joys of bench moment arrived at this tent city with nothing more than the clothes on his back and a tank of gasoline threatening to set himself on fire. to me by the state nothing more nothing most suited my country is a soldier and i will stay here to me and i do not food that i sold in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echoed the pain and abandonment people here feel the government has no time for us there is money there is a lot of money to help people like us who couldn't care less he will win again i know this. is a disgrace. the prime minister netanyahu has formed committees to deal with the demands of anti austerity protesters but they complain he hasn't taken a single concrete step to address the concerns of the mostly i think we need to

invest more in social issues housing and cost of groceries and keep the security budget proportion look at. security of society. it's more important not less important than there's security. but the voice on the street is drawn down by the bubble of weaponry and tell of its obsession and showcasing its military prowess policy on team television. more news here later and a right after short break kate partridge will bring us the latest for how date.

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hello and thank you for joining me for the all t. sport show half an hour of sporting action from across russia and the world is coming up including these top stories. high saki extravaganza alexei models are kept in the east to an eighteen point two eleven victory over a culture west of the all star game until the ovens we have all the build up and launch action and exclusive interviews from one of the biggest weekends in the k.h. calendar. was marching on that's down moscow clinched their eighth straight win in the euro only ninety points to eighty three victories home to german champions because of us kids as the army mentality to first title since two thousand and eight. and season's meetings with moscow set to host the world athletics track. of track and field down this year's campaign at the

capitals into for christmas cup. but let's start on the ice where for the first time over two days this year's all-star game prepared to face off in the east with two russian superstars and a host of cheerleaders making their debuts robot spot on your house more. it's been a long time coming but finally the leeks cream of the crop headed east. one of russia's biggest industrial cities at the foot of the urals at the privilege of house thing the fifth edition of the care chill all star game the conditions outside were certainly frosty biting this side this couldn't have been further from the two fans turning out there are thousands to see some of their favorite stars take to the ice in these hard to that city. this is a very exciting pool round on the ice showing off their best skill set and the crowd love it. it's certainly

a day to remember. finally be unlocked and some russian biggest stars already back and forth. wasn't just the cages where the actual shoots and. names which need no introduction and. realize their dream of playing an all star game in front of their home crowd. gets special commission which from their respective new jersey devils and detroit red wings teams to be here in this game and they were delighted to give something back i talked to told them that i want to go there to please my fans here and it's very important for the people in russia and he said i got all the understanding can just. come to jersey right after that so that's what i'm going. to be it's my first year and i'm pretty excited it's not an ordinary all routine event and the fans expect no one was there.